236. "The Black Sox Scandal" 7" x 10.5"

Size: 7 × 10.5 inches art print (not a comic book) Availability: Pre-order ends Sunday, March 1st at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET Shipping: Expected to ship approximately 40–60 days after the purchase window closes. Estimated timeframe. Not guaranteed. From the Artist: THE BLACK SOX SCANDAL There are moments in baseball that feel distanct. And then there are moments that still feel unsettled. The 1919 World Series is one of those. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of fixing the series. A jury layer acquitted them. Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain banned them anyway. that decision, more than the verdict reshaped the sport. It's easy to reduce the black socks to a headline. To a morality play. Two villains and heroes. But history is rarely that tidy. Some players were clearly involved. Some were less so. Two in particular have lived in that uncomfortable middle space for more than a century… Good players, complicated circumstance, and permanent consequences. What always struck me wasn't the courtroom, it was the dugout. Eight men in uniform, sitting together. The weight of what was coming, whether they admitted it or not. The light doesn't fall evenly. It never does. This piece lives in that space, before the bans were announced, before the story hardened into legend. It's not trying to solve the scandal it's just acknowledging that it happened and that the game was never quite the same afterward. Every era has its reckoning. 1919 was baseballs. | ---- Each print is 7 × 10.5 inches, artist-signed and numbered on the back, and ships bagged in a comic sleeve, just like the ones we grew up with.